Edward Hume Trash Chapter 2 Summary

In early times everything was reused, recycled or repaired. There was no such thing as rubbish until the invention of the trash bin. With everything being thrown into trash bins, no one understood what problems landfills would later have with polluted grounds and contaminated surrounding waters.

In the poem, The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot gives a primarily positive connotation by using the theme of speech, language, and failure of speech. In each of the sections, Eliot shows how speech and communication are important in life. He also shows that speech cannot always accomplish what actions can. The way the characters in the poem use speech show that speech and communication are important.

It is shocking to think that the average American produces around seven pounds of trash a day (NPR). What’s scarier is that this is a 50% increase in trash production from the 1960’s. It is unknown whether or

As old landfills are forced to close due to the massive amounts of waste material contained within, many cities search for new landfill space that will meet the necessary standards. Due to rising construction costs, some cities discovered it was less expensive to ship their garbage to other places than to upgrade old landfills or open new ones. Some even

Multiple cities face issues surround the use of landfills around the planet. Yorkshire, England faces one of the biggest problems with trash in Europe with the expansion of its landfill setting out to become one of the tallest in the world. Beijing, China is almost out of space for trash even with the presence of over 400 landfills, and 14 dumps in the state of New York have reached full capacity. Paul Connett, a professor of Chemistry, says that the problem lies in the fact that the world keeps putting things into the ground that will not break down. Instead of trash becoming a part of the earth, we are left with cases like that in Gloucestershire, England, where 15,000 people live near a landfill that allowed to dump 1,500 tons of

"Freedom" is a word which defines a lot of things from a different perspective because "Freedom is the Oxygen of the Soul," says Moshe Dayan. We know that freedom means free from something and this something could be one thing for different people from different position and place. To make a connection or contrast between " On Liberty " by John Stuart Mill with " Much Madness is Divinest Sense " by Emily Dickison and " Daddy " by Sylvia Plath, the primary key terms are -Freedom, Majority, Minority, Social Liberty, Authority, and Mankind. " On Liberty " Mill didn't say what he believes, but he explained the reality of our society that we have to face in every moment like the " Tyranny Of The Majority ." On the other side, the poems are used different metaphors to express the feelings of the writers exactly what they were thinking or intuiting at that moments. Like as - " Much Madness is Divinest Sense " ( Dickinson,492 ) or " Daddy, I have had to kill you ." By the punctuation, metaphors, word choices, and comparing images, Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath state that if you are not a part or member of the " Tyrannical Majority " the society will deprive you of the liberty and your life.

In fact, when it comes to waste, people depend directly to landfills which are in reality causing severe damage to the environment including human beings. The case at the Dickson [Country] Landfill can be an apt example for that reason. Environmental News Service reports one family in the country has been harmed by the chemicals. In results, many

By the mid-1700s it was common practice to dispose of waste into pits rather than throwing the garbage into the streets. One of our founding fathers even implemented the first organized waste removal service in Philadelphia in 1757. Like today’s garbage men, pairs of two would travel the streets and pick up any trash that could dispose.

One third of the landfills in the United States have closed since 1980, and more than half the cities on the East Coast will run out of room in their landfills by 1990. In New York, 14 sites have closed in the past 10 years. (Squidoo) With all of these places either closing or being full very soon we are running out of space to put all the trash. Some say that we should just burn our garbage but when garbage is burned, it can release dangerous gases into the air. Each year Americans throw away 1.6 billion pens, 2 billion razors, 220 million tires, and enough aluminum to rebuild the entire U.S. commercial airline fleet.

People like to reflect on the past. Some enjoy it, and take pleasure in what they had accomplished and done. Others look back in misery, and wish they could change it. However, in both cases, some may long for it to come back. This may be because they want to be there again where it was perfect in their eyes, or to change it, because their past is full of regret. One of these instances is the four old friends from the short story Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The four, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, Mr. Gascoigne, and Widow Wycherly, all had terrible pasts, and had extreme desire to go back in time to fix it, which they almost did. The four want to change their past, and this brings about the theme of it is impossible to change it.

We all know that this country produces quite a lot of "stuff." Goods and services, we’re the economically-dominant country in the world. U.S. corporate power makes, the world takes. But with all this production, all these goods, comes a need to dispose of what we consider to be no longer useful. Some of it is in fact useful, some of it isn’t. But the fact is, we throw away a lot of stuff. Compared to the rest of the world, we dispose of goods much like we market them –tremendously disproportional. Each American produces about 4.4 lbs. of trash every day, costing our municipalities a total of $23 billion annually; this is far more waste than that of any other Westernized nation. (Columbia

As a result of this, almost everyone tosses their garbage into unhygienic landfills to save time and money and

As our global population continues on a steady rise so does our product consumption, which naturally leads to an increase in waste production. The vast amount of waste that we are manufacturing ultimately lands up in our oceans, lakes, rivers, alley ways, backyards and parks creating what are known as garbage towns. This would introduce health risks to individuals and the community as a whole. These risks could also include exposure to dangerous chemicals that poses detrimental effects on the environment. To avoid this from happening governments have created landfills. Landfills are a “place to dispose of refuse and other waste material by burying it and covering it over with soil, especially as a method of filling in or extending usable land.” (Webster Dictionary). In an even more extravagant attempt to keep waste material out of the streets and non biodegradable products out of the ground and keeping organic material together governments have added recycling and composting plants to landfills to make waste management centres. In waste management centres they may separate the material there and transport it to its respective plant, or have the respective plants built in.

Since the human being lived in this world, different kinds of waste were produced continuously. In the early years, the common wastes produced were biodegradable. There are no major problems with this since it will decompose over time. As the number of population increases and new inventions were made, the kind of waste produced by humans also increases. Some of these wastes include plastics, glass, metal, papers and many more. Some of waste scattered in the surroundings are recyclable. But due to improper waste management, these are not optimized.

Today’s environment is beset of problems. Several years have past but the problem on garbage is still existing and proliferating as decades and decades come. It has been a pressing problem to governmental organization and also to include non-governmental organization on how are they going to address the problem.